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Vehicles
Hummer Tank: Right In Time for Winter/Economic Crisis
5:40AM Mark Wilson | In case gas mileage on your Hummer wasn’t spiting Prius drivers everywhere enough, engineers have pooled their talents to add aftermarket tracked belts in place of the “nothing wrong with ‘em” wheels. Needless to say, MPG and top speed will be greatly diminished on this H2. But the tears shed in the face of its general lack of humanity should be voluminous enough to wash away the world’s pollution one or two times over. [Jalopnik] More »
Weapons
Military-Grade Hummer Replacement Has Remote-Controlled Gun Turret
9:25AM Adrian Covert | I’m sure military enthusiasts will geek out about this IMI Wildcat — A Hummer-replacing 4×4 MPC vehicle that can hold 12 soldiers, protect against 14.5 mm fire and RPGs, cross 900mm trenches, is C-130 transportable, yada yada yada, whoopdie freakin doo. But what makes this thing truly awesome is that it has a gun turret on top that can be remotely controlled from inside. More »
Phones
Hummer HT2 Phone Is Smaller, Brighter, Even More Pointless than the Original
3:45AM Matt Buchanan | Fifty-thousand people compensating for something bought the Hummer HT1 phone. The new HT2 pulls the same trick as the H2 truck—it shrinks the original and adds a brighter coat of paint, with a fresh splash of asinine. In this case, even more so, because it seems to pack the same ho-hum specs as the HT1. At least the camo paint let you pretend it was invisible—now the sunny brick will make sure everyone knows you’re a jackass. [Idnes via Slashphone] More »
Random Stuff
Hummer with Roof-Mounted Laser Cannon is Pure Intimidation
3:09AM Adam Frucci | If you really want to intimidate people and blow some stuff up real good, you can’t go wrong with a Hummer that happens to have a gigantic laser cannon mounted on top of it. The Laser Avenger, which we first reported on back in October, is designed to take out roadside bombs from afar, and I can assure you that you can’t have one. The laser is a solid-state direct-energy beam by Boeing and shoots an “invisible beam just a few centimeters in diameter and 20 times hotter than an electric stovetop.” Yeah, you don’t want to be on the business end of that. [Popular Mechanics] More »
Vehicles
Modified Hummer Gets 60mpg, Goes From 0-60 in 5 Seconds
11:20AM Sean Fallon | H3 Humvees are not exactly the first vehicles that come to mind when you think of saving the environment, which is why this modded 2005 H3 is so freakin’ amazing. According to its creator and green car guru Johnathan Goodwin, when completed this H3 will be able to achieve 60mpg running on biodiesel, 600 horsepower, 2000 foot-pounds of torque, and go from 0-60 in 5 seconds —thanks to the 60,000 rpm 1985 turbine jet engine he plans on installing. More »
